Big is a minimal presentation system with a simple rule: the text on every
slide is embiggened until it fills your screen.
It works pretty okay with focused presentations and plenty of narration,
and it will make long bullet-lists look terrible.
You create presentations with big by downloading it and editing simple
HTML: div
elements become slides. You style your presentations
with CSS, just like web pages.
Then you can either post your slides
to GitHub to share with the world, or boot up a local development
server to conference-wifi-proof them.
Quick Start
curl -L http://bit.ly/big-quick > index.html
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
(then open localhost:8000)
Plugins and Riffs
Don't like typing HTML? You can use biggie
if you want and type Markdown instead. bigpy does
it in Python.
Don't want to spend time designing stuff? big-themes
has some precooked styles.
Want something else? Check out Weenote,
stack, and showoff.
There sure are options nowadays.
Nerd Stuff
Big is 1.1KB and 46 lines long at last count. It's written in vanilla JavaScript
with no frameworks and no hijinks. It supports touch and permalinks
to individual slide pages. It's licensed PD and is ready for you to hack
it into something beautiful or monstrous.
Big is awesome because awesome folks have helped out, and you can too:
fork big on GitHub!